NATO expansion was a key issue as the US, Western European and Soviet leaders negotiated the reunification of Germany. US and Western European leaders repeatedly promised their Soviet and Russian counterparts in the early 1990s that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe, according to a series of declassified documents posted by George Washington University’s National Security Archive on Tuesday. “US... 

Top secret files are due to be declassified this month in a move that could bring closure to one of the most traumatic events in US history – the assassination of President John F Kennedy. A law was signed by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992 mandating the release of all documents related to Kennedy’s assassination within 25 years. Under the JFK Records Act of 1992, the National Archives... 

The day has finally come for all UFO lovers and those who still believe ‘the truth is out there’. The CIA has released thousands of declassified documents on flying saucers. The agency humorously noted that X-Files’ Fox Mulder would certainly love to use them to prove the existence of extraterrestrials. “We’ve decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting.... 

A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War nuclear target list to become declassified. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, was published by the National Security Archive... 

Around half of the books recovered after the alleged 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound were about conspiracies, 9/11 and the Illuminati, according to newly declassified documents, begging the question – why would Bin Laden be interested in books about 9/11 conspiracy theories if he had masterminded the attack? The following books were all recovered after the raid; – America’s “War... 

The United States has assisted Israel in developing a hydrogen bomb, a move which violated international laws, a declassified report by the US Department of Defense has revealed. According to the 1987 report, top Israeli nuclear facilities were analogous to the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories which played a key role in the development of US nuclear weaponry. The 386-page report, “Critical... 

The British government declassified hundreds of materials about unidentified flying objects. The materials are no longer useful for the British authorities. The defense department involved in the study of unidentified flying objects, decided to expose the materials to the general public to let everyone see that aliens do not exist, nor do they pose any threat to humans. The documents are available... 

Doting father: Josef Stalin, pictured with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, disowned his son Yakov in 1928 A Soviet archive has yielded up one of the last secrets of World War Two that dictator Josef Stalin took to his grave – the fact his son Yakov gave himself up to Nazi forces during the 1941 invasion of his country. The party line in Stalin’s Russia was always that Yakov Dzhugashvili,...